Hello Champions!
Here’s a recap and top Q+A from our March M365 Champions monthly call of 2026, featuring PowerPoint: Edit with Copilot, Brand Kit and Image Gen with Anubhav Nigam and Khaleel Amarshi from the PowerPoint product team.
We kicked off the call with two major community event announcements. First, the recap of SharePoint 25th Birthday Celebration on March 2, 2026—a free digital event highlighting SharePoint’s most defining innovations and offering a forward‑looking view into its AI‑driven future, with insights from Microsoft leaders. We also shared that the Microsoft 365 Community Conference returns April 21–23, 2026 in Orlando, where attendees can connect with Microsoft experts, explore hands‑on labs, and dive into the latest advancements across AI and Microsoft 365.
Anubhav and Khaleel led the main sessions with a deep dive into what’s new in PowerPoint with Copilot, highlighting how presentation creation and editing are becoming significantly more intelligent and intuitive. Formerly referred to as “Agent Mode,” Edit with Copilot uses natural language to plan, execute, review, and deliver complex presentation tasks—going far beyond simple text edits. Copilot can reason across an entire deck, restructure content, rewrite slides for clarity or time, and ground its output using work content, files, the web, and the current presentation, all while continuously self-correcting to better match user intent.
A major focus of the session was brand‑aware, on‑brand creation by default through the combined use of organizational templates and Copilot Brand Kits. Templates act as the primary source of truth, while Brand Kits enhance results by supplying logos, colors, fonts, imagery styles, layouts, and brand voice—helping Copilot generate slides that truly look like they were created by the organization. The product team also showcased advances in context‑aware image generation and AI‑powered image editing, enabling users to generate, refine, and polish visuals directly in PowerPoint without relying on external tools. Together, these updates position PowerPoint Copilot as a powerful creative partner that reduces effort while raising the quality and consistency of presentations.
Q+A from this month's session:
1. Our Brand Kits we created seems to disappear all the time (shared as Official corp brand kit as brand admin). Sometimes they return but now seem to have fully disappeared.
Answer: Can you please report this via feedback? We will track this. This should not be happening and possibly some bug we will definitely look into.
2.Are we going to discuss the recently announced changes to Copilot Chat (basic) access in M365?
Answer: We're gathering more information and will bring it to everyone as soon as we can! Edit with copilot is on web already. And soon rolling out to desktop app.
3. What model does edit with copilot use?
Answer: OpenAI; We have a model picker coming soon. You will be able to pick the model to use (OpenAI or Claude)
4. Do the templates be in a particular format for the agent to read them and replicate the company branding?
Answer: It is recommended for templates to have example brand slides and brand info that guides the system. More information in this doc Keep your presentation on-brand with Copilot - Microsoft Support. The templates will appear in the chat pane contextually for your selection
5. Can we use templates at all? We don't have brand templates
Answer: You can use it without templates as well.
6. This functionality will leverage on templates in SPO Brand?
Answer: It will leverage templates from OAL or brand kits in Create
7. Do Brand Kits enable creating a branded deck from the main Copilot Chat landing page, or should users use Copilot in the PPT app itself? How do Brand Kits play into this?
Answer: For now, it will be available via "Edit with Copilot" inside PowerPoint. We will eventually have it at other surfaces as well.
8. If an official Brand Kit is added to Copilot Create, will it be available for PowerPoint?
Answer: Yes, the brand kits from Create are leveraged in PowerPoint edit with Copilot
9. My company has many business units with distinct branding - can the feature handle that?
Answer: Yes, you can have multiple brand kits at company level
10. How can you apply and use brand templates that are not built / or does not use SharePoint Asset Libraries? We have specific brand guidelines but are unable to use the branded PPT template we have available with Copilot. Any guidance would be appreciated, thank you
Answer: Keep your presentation on-brand with Copilot - Microsoft Support Hope this article will help. The Edit with Copilot leverages templates from either Copilot Brand kits or from Organization Asset Library)
11. Can the team consider have "authorized users" to setup a Brand Kit. Like Marketing or Sales Department personnel?
Answer: You can define a group of brand managers who can only create and publish official brandkits. You can also define edit access for a shared brand kit. Create and manage official Brand kits in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app - Microsoft Support
12. If we update slides in the organizational template would the presentations that use those slides also update?
Answer: Yes, we use the latest template available in OAL or brandkit.
13. Does the Brand Kit capability access an existing Organizational Asset Library in SharePoint?
Answer: Yes, while setting up a brand kit, you can reference your assets in OAL.
14. The brand kit intermittently disappears and fails to open, and now it doesn’t appear at all.
Answer: Can you please report this via send feedback option on Create Copilot. Will help us get the necessary information to debug the issue.
15. Is the Brand Kit the same as the SharePoint Brand Centre?
Answer: Brand kits and brand center are different. Brand center allows you to add part of brand information for applying brand to SharePoint sites and Viva. Brand kits help provide richer information for your brand including brand guidelines, styles, color palettes, voice etc. Brand kits are used by Copilot for branded content creation (image generation, presentation generation, video generation).
16. The experience has been that Brand Kits/Creating PPTs from brand templates is really best done in https://m365.cloud.microsoft/create vs. the Copilot desktop app.. does that sound accurate?
Answer: You can setup brand kits both from web or Copilot desktop app. There should not be a difference
17. Is Agent Mode available in the GCC environment?
Answer: +2-2.5 months after GA, this is the typical rollout timeline.
18. Are there any plans to make Brand Kits accessible via an API (such as MS Graph)?
Answer: Can you please share the use case?
19. How does a creative person export a brand kit to someone who has access to OAL? Typically those aren't the same person.
Answer: Export to brand kit is not available, but you can refer OAL assets in brand kit. Would love to understand the requirement for exporting brand kit to OAL
20. Our users are asking for Copilot chat to leverage OAL templates, OAL images, official Brand Kits, without having to find the 'agent mode' buried under hidden settings in the apps. Is there a way to set the default templates, images, brand kits, etc. for Copilot chat so that when users simply use the main Copilot chat window to create a PPT deck, it defaults to a specific corporate template/kit?
Answer: Getting brand kits work with Copilot chat is on the roadmap. More details on - Edit with Copilot in PowerPoint (Frontier) - Microsoft Support
21. If we like someone else's slide themes, can we upload sample slide decks for the agent to learn from to build our slides in a similar theme?
Answer: Edit with Copilot treats the input template as source of styling, layouts, and formatting. So depending on your input PPT/templarte your output look and feel will change.
22. Do the Brand Kits work with the old Office Themes? And actual potx (not just pptx)?
Answer: You can add both to a brand kit
23. Who can create brand kits?
Answer: IT administrator has to grant you access as Brand Manager. You also require a Microsoft Copilot license. Anyone can create a personal kit, but official kits can only be created by brand managers which can be configured by an office policy configuration. Create and manage official Brand kits in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app - Microsoft Support
24. With Copilot in PowerPoint, will it recognize the PPT templates or does the brand kit work better for keeping layout, color and other details consistent?
Answer: Edit with Copilot leverages templates first, and enhances with brand kit for on-brand output.
26. Is this using Claude models?
Answer: Currently, it's using OpenAI; We have a model picker coming soon. You will be able to pick the model to use (OpenAI or Claude).
27. Will Edit with Copilot in PowerPoint be on by default for the user like Edit with Copilot in Excel and Word?
Answer: Yes, change coming soon. It will save you those multiple clicks to get to agent and be on by default.
28. Is the Brand Kit the same as the SharePoint Brand Centre?
Answer: No, these are two different things as of today. Brand center leverages your info for SharePoint branding but brand kits on Create help you created branded images and PowerPoints via Copilot.
29. Can you have multiple brand kits for different clients?
Answer: Yes, you can have multiple brand kits.
30. Can the team consider have "authorized users" to setup a Brand Kit. Like Marketing or Sales Department personnel?
Answer: You can define a group of brand managers who can only create and publish official brandkits. You can also define edit access for a shared brand kit. Create and manage official Brand kits in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app - Microsoft Support
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